Products Guide

Within your SKUSavvy account, all product information is held centrally and can be equipped across different warehouses. Every product can have multiple variants, units of measurement, or kits associated with it. You can also hold barcodes and dimensional information across your variants.

Products imported from a Shopify or other eCommerce storefront will come over with their variants attached.

View Product and Inventory

On the product view you can see all your products either grouped or variant by variant to see total inventory by SKU as well as see unit cost and price to sort.

Flatten any product or inventory view by selecting this icon

Using the navigation you can find your way through the product and variants, vendors, inventory, and orders.

Product Navigation

• 1) Product name currently being viewed

• 2) Properties of the product like name, tags, perishable flag, status etc.

• 3) Variants of the product

• 4) View inventory across all variants and locations for this product

• 5) View all vendors carrying this product

Variant Navigation

• 1) Click the dropdown to select another variant of the product

• 2) View the properties of a variant

• 3) View current vendors carrying the variant

• 4) View kits that include this variant

• 5) View the inventory across locations for this variant

• 6) View orders placed (committed stock) for this variant

Product Properties

When you click into a single product SKUSavvy will show you the general properties of that product including:

• 1) Click the Shopify product link to go directly to this product within Shopify (requires Shopify to be connected) - details edited in Shopify will show up in SKUSavvy in real-time

• 2) Delete the product (does not delete the product within Shopify)

• 3) Set a product status : active, draft, archived

• 4) Set a product title (this can be updated in Shopify and received in SKUSavvy)

• 5) Product Tags and Types: add product tags to enable sorting and pick batching by order tag. Add a product type for further filtering

• 6) Requires shipping and perishable items: indicate to SKUSavvy whether the item is a digital or physical product. Set the item as a perishable item which will start requiring lot & expiration dates on all variants of the product

• 7) Add Options and Variants: you can add options to you products such as size, color, shape etc., you can also add variants to the product. NOTE: new options and variants should be added on Shopify first and these will come over into SKUSavvy

• 8) Variants of the Product: view/edit the options, skus, price, dimensions and weight

• 9) Edit the single variant

Product Variants

Once the variants table you'll be able to view all variants and make bulk edits to the variants.

Product Inventory View

Using the inventory view enables you to see all your inventory levels across variants and the warehouse as well as bin locations

Product Vendors

This view will show you vendors associated with the product and the cost at which those vendors supply the product. This view shows vendors for each variant

Every product is made up of variants. Think of this as a parent-child relationship since variants are treated as their own within an order. Product variants can have up to three custom options configured, such as size, material, and color. Variants also hold the dimensional information, price, SKU, barcode, and weight.

For example, you can have a sweatshirt with sizes small through x-large, each of those sizes could have a color associated, such as a blue x-large sweatshirt. In each of these variants, you can hold separate inventories across your warehouses.

Variant Properties

Under the properties tab of a product variant, you can see options for the SKU, price, backorder, variant options, dimensions, barcodes, units of measure, and attributes

Variant Vendors

While viewing a variant select the vendors tab on the left hand menu, you can directly add and change the vendor costs or vendor SKUs of a particular variant across the vendors carrying the item.

If you've set up products on Shopify with their variants, this information will come straight over to SKUSavvy, variants, and options intact.

Adding product variants with multiple options can be achieved by clicking into a product, and adding options. Say you have size as an option, and want to add color, you would 'Add Option' and title the option 'Color'. This now appears on all variants so it can be available as a fulfillment option. You can set this up with any type of option such as size, weight, carat, unit, etc.

Every product variant must contain a barcode for it to be acceptable as a product throughout the fulfillment process. IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BARCODE go here:

You can also assign any pre-generated barcode to the product for situations that you may have a box of 1000 widgets and want to use one barcode on the outside of the box to scan this product.

To add a barcode go into a variant of the product. Once there you will see the option to 'Enter Barcode' or 'Scan Barcode' which will enable you to enter a barcode manually or using the phone's camera to scan the barcode of a variant and attach it to the product.

Entering a manual barcode will require you to select the correct format of the barcode from a dropdown. By scanning a barcode the system will detect the barcode type and the barcode will show up on the product.

Using the 'Scan Any Barcode' feature you can detect any related information within the system or assign a barcode to either a product variant or bin.

Once you scan a barcode that is unknown, you will see a screen where you can assign it to a product variant or bin.

Now when you select 'Attach to a Product' it will enable you to select the product, and attach the barcode. Your next scan should pull up the product information. You can assign multiple barcodes to one product.

Backordered items prevent the shipment of an item. With this engaged, any orders coming through your Shopify or other eCommerce stores will be split into two shipments. The first shipment will handle available items to fulfill. The second shipment will remain open until the product is back in stock, at which point the orders will open back up and enable the fulfillment of the item.

Back-ordered products will be fulfilled and updated in Shopify or other eCommerce systems as two shipments.

Backordered products will create two shipments within SKUSavvy so the existing orders in the system that were affected can be fulfilled once new inventory is checked in.

From the main admin once you select a product and go into a variant, that variant will have inventory levels available across all the warehouses currently holding inventory. You can view the levels, or click into an inventory level to view more specifics.

Inventory levels are associated with that variant, and within the inventory detail page you will see each warehouse location currently holding inventory for this item, as well as the bins within that warehouse holding the inventory.

• 1) In company value is the total units available, inclusive of committed quantity

• 2) Committed inventory is the number of units for this variant promised to orders

• 3) Click on the committed quantity to view orders for this variant

• 4) Expected quantity is the number of units expected from purchase orders. Click on the expected quantity to view open POs on the variant

• 5) Average sales per day over time

• 6) A chart of the total inventory level for this variant over time

• 7) Tap the caret icon to pull down the individual bin locations of this variant at the shown warehouse

• 8) View the par levels for each warehouse

• 9) Individual bin locations and quantity currently held of the variant

• 10) Click on adjust the make adjustments of this variant at the warehouse shown

Click on an inventory level for a specific warehouse location to reveal detail on the product such as total product available, in transit quantities, average sales per day, and individual location of the item in a warehouse.

By clicking into a variant you'll be able to view all orders associated with that variant. Click the menu on a variant, and select 'Orders' where a list of all past orders for this product will show up.

Putting several products together to form another item is called kitting. SKUSavvy enables you to kit products together so they can be picked as part of your normal fulfillment operations. Each kit is a recipe holding how many and of which products will go into creating another product.

Once you create a kit you'll enter the ingredients (Inputs) and the product to create (Outputs). Within this kit, you can have multiple quantities of one item in the recipe, for instance, three of widget A, two of widget B, and one of widget C that makes up Widget Z.

Once created, your kit will be available as a product that can be picked and assembled in any warehouse. Simply click on the 'Assemble' button and select the warehouse you want to assemble the kit in. Note that you will need to have inventory available for all the input components.

Units of measurement on products such as pallet, case, single are treated as variants. So, you can have one product with a variant 'Case' and one with a variant 'Single'. When you check this product in as a case, the product exists within the warehouse at that variant.

To create a unit of measure for a specific product go into the Product > Variant, and scroll down on the variant until you see units. By default all variants are a base single unit, so there is no need to add the single unit.

• 1) Click on 'Add Unit' to create the unit types

• 2) Enter the name of the unit type

• 3) Enter the factor that unit represents, in the case below a pallet represents 1000 single units

• 4) Save the units to the variant

Once you have saved the variant unit of measure you can add a barcode for each unit and assign the unit type to that barcode.